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O co sea lived atrade

Like a warlike he-ro,

Like a warlike he-ro that never was aff-er-aid!

--The Feler

Captain Mayo carried only doubts and discouragement back to the wreck on

Razee His doubts were mostly concerned with theso insistently Mayo hi He inquired at the post-office, but there was no mail

for him If no papers had been abstracted from the Marston archives,

if this affair were so, the

pro, Mayo told himself

He determined to keep his own counsel and wait for developments

Two days later the developments arrived at Razee in the person of

Captain Zoradus Wass, who ca in a chartered é with sailor heartiness, and

went on a leisurely tour of inspection

"So like a tinker's job on an iron kittle, son," he commented

"You must have been born with some of the instincts of a pluet her off"